The fact that the woman is poor and couldn’t have the luxuries she wanted harrowed her life. This lady was actually benevolent but she just wanted to be rich.

'Also, the fact that the woman had merely wanted to wear the jewelry to make herself look more pretty and rich for the party.If she hadn't of asked her friend to let her borrow the jewelry, she would never have ruined her life by trying to make up for what she had done earlier on. It was worth at the very most five hundred francs!. This shows in the end of the story 'Oh, my poor Mathilde! But mine was imitation. The irony is the fact that the woman worked her entire life to buy a necklace for the woman after it was lost to find out later on that the necklace she had lost and spent all that time trying to replace was fake. Dramatic irony is a narrative in which the reader knows something about present or future circumstances that a character in the story does not know. Situational irony is an accidental events occur that seem oddly appropriate, such as the poetic justice of a TV weather presenter getting caught in a surprise rainstorm. Verbal irony (also called sarcasm) is when a writer makes a statement in which the actual meaning differs from the meaning that the words appear to express. In the story, 'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant, irony is use all trough the story.

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